Top NZ Baby Names of 1924

Margaret (536) and John (929) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1924. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1920s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret536
  2. 2Mary410
  3. 3Joan372
  4. 4Dorothy348
  5. 5Joyce329
  6. 6Patricia295
  7. 7Betty292
  8. 8Jean269
  9. 9Shirley252
  10. 10Kathleen221
  11. 11June220
  12. 12Audrey210
  13. 13Phyllis203
  14. 14Elizabeth173
  15. 15Eileen161
  16. 16Doreen150
  17. 17Nancy136
  18. 18Edna129
  19. 19Norma126
  20. 20Marjorie124
  21. 21Helen118
  22. 22Thelma115
  23. 23Doris114
  24. 24Mavis114
  25. 25Irene110
  26. 26Daphne106
  27. 27Marie105
  28. 28Florence100
  29. 29Gladys97
  30. 30Nola97
  31. 31Annie96
  32. 32Elsie96
  33. 33Olive96
  34. 34Hazel95
  35. 35Barbara94
  36. 36Frances92
  37. 37Lorna91
  38. 38Ngaire91
  39. 39Beryl85
  40. 40Alice84
  41. 41Evelyn81
  42. 42Valerie81
  43. 43Ruth79
  44. 44Violet77
  45. 45Catherine74
  46. 46Edith74
  47. 47Muriel73
  48. 48Noeline72
  49. 49Winifred72
  50. 50Agnes65

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John929
  2. 2William729
  3. 3James493
  4. 4Robert453
  5. 5George323
  6. 6Thomas279
  7. 7Ronald267
  8. 8Raymond251
  9. 9Arthur237
  10. 10Donald221
  11. 11Kenneth203
  12. 12Douglas202
  13. 13David196
  14. 14Charles195
  15. 15Edward194
  16. 16Peter194
  17. 17Ian188
  18. 18Gordon185
  19. 19Leslie185
  20. 20Eric181
  21. 21Colin173
  22. 22Keith173
  23. 23Richard171
  24. 24Allan163
  25. 25Norman157
  26. 26Jack151
  27. 27Francis149
  28. 28Albert148
  29. 29Desmond145
  30. 30Alan144
  31. 31Noel137
  32. 32Walter132
  33. 33Leonard126
  34. 34Alexander125
  35. 35Brian123
  36. 36Frederick123
  37. 37Harold122
  38. 38Stanley121
  39. 39Bruce118
  40. 40Maurice118
  41. 41Trevor116
  42. 42Frank115
  43. 43Alfred111
  44. 44Henry110
  45. 45Ernest105
  46. 46Ivan104
  47. 47Patrick99
  48. 48Joseph93
  49. 49Reginald77
  50. 50Bernard76

About this data: figures come from Department of Internal Affairs birth registrations for 1954-2025. The DIA only publishes a name for a given year when at least 10 babies were registered with it, so rarer names - and rarer spellings - are missing entirely, and a name can drop out of the record in quieter years. Spelling variants are counted separately, and counts reflect first names as registered.